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“Journalists have always had to have integrity”

Paul Gosling on May 11, 2020, 8:01 am

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The media are at a crossroads, with fears over the future of some of Northern Ireland’s best known newspapers. Existing trends favouring social media over print newspapers have been accelerated by the Covid-19 crisis, with additional financial pressures from a collapse in advertising revenues. This is an appropriate moment to reflect on the future of the media and on ethical responsibilities on journalists working in a post-conflict society. The latest Forward Together podcast from the Holywell Trust features an interview …

Social media transparency data is giving real time insight on party strategy at #GE2019

Peter Donaghy (Salmon of Data) on November 9, 2019, 10:12 pm

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The upcoming general election is the first general election in the UK where social media companies are publishing transparency data, showing which political advertisements are being displayed on the platforms, who is paying for them, and the amounts being spent. Facebook is, by far, the largest platform for social media political advertisements in the UK. In the first full week of the campaign to the 4th of November, there was £175k of spending on campaign related advertisements on the platform, …

The NI Department of Justice #EndingTheHarm campaign viewed over a million times on Snapchat in August 2019

Peter Donaghy (Salmon of Data) on September 19, 2019, 10:36 pm

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Transparency data released this week by ephemeral messaging app Snapchat has shown that the NI Department of Justice #EndingTheHarm campaign made over a million impressions over an 18 day period last month. The campaign, part of the Tackling Paramilitarism programme, made 1,138,048 impressions over the course of the campaign. Of the 15 organizations who had political campaigns on the social network in the UK over the course of 2019 so far, it ranked 8th in terms of impressions behind Police …

Stephen NOLAN: Enhancing democratic debate in the era of fake news?

Allan LEONARD (Mr Ulster) on February 27, 2019, 11:06 pm

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Stephen NOLAN: Enhancing democratic debate in the era of fake news? by Allan LEONARD 26 February 2019 As part of their engagement programme, Queen’s University Belfast hosted a lecture by radio and television personality, Stephen Nolan, who was introduced by Ryan Feeney. Much of Nolan’s lecture was an autobiography of how he has developed his career in journalism and working for the BBC. His views on the topics in the lecture title — “Enhancing the Democratic Debate in the Era …

Just Say Momo – how the PSNI are helping to spread hoaxes and hysteria online

Peter Donaghy (Salmon of Data) on February 27, 2019, 12:30 pm

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If you are a member of any parents’ social media groups, then you might have heard of “Momo”, apparently a game that challenges children to perform dangerous tasks. The story is often accompanied by a horrifying picture, which is actually a sculpture created by a Japanese special effects company called Link Factory. The story is a well-known hoax, and the urban legend debunking site Snopes article has an excellent article on the subject. At the time of writing, the hoax …

Earning trust “story by story”

Allan LEONARD (Mr Ulster) on October 9, 2018, 10:15 am

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Earning trust “story by story”: Can we believe the media? The role of journalism in the digital age by Allan LEONARD 4 October 2018 Ulster University — along with the UK press regulatory body, Impress, and the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) — jointly hosted a symposium event at its Belfast campus: “Can we believe the media? The role of journalism in the digital age”. Keynote speakers were Jonathan Heawood (Chief Executive Officer, Impress) and Peter Feeney (Press …

Amnesty’s #ToxicTwitter report calls for rules on abuse to be enforced

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on March 21, 2018, 1:40 pm

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SIX LOCAL WOMEN add their voices to Amnesty’s #ToxicTwitter report which calls on the social media platform to put their own rules on abuse and hateful conduct into practice, or else demonstrate how they deal with abuse when it’s reported given people’s experience of inaction.